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Super Micro contractor pleads guilty in scheme to ship SI servers with Nvidia chips to China

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A case over circumventing export restrictions is moving forward in court; SI capabilities themselves are unchanged.

According to Reuters (as relayed by Investing.com) and Bloomberg, Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun, an outside contractor linked to Super Micro, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan. In March prosecutors charged him and two others linked to Super Micro (including a co-founder) with conspiring to divert about $2.5 billion worth of US SI technology to China in violation of export rules. Under the indictment, servers with advanced Nvidia chips were sent to an unnamed company in Southeast Asia and from there redirected to Chinese buyers. The sentence and a full company comment are not given in the available materials.

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Nvidia chips shipped to China around restrictions

5 events
  1. Israeli company Lava reports 32 Nvidia B300 chips in systems linked to China Telecom, although US export controls bar their sale to China
  2. Taiwan to add SI servers and advanced chips to its controlled-goods list: shipping them to China to become a criminal offense
  3. Super Micro contractor pleads guilty in scheme to ship SI servers with Nvidia chips to ChinaOpen now
  4. Bloomberg: Nvidia cut more than half of its approved Asian buyers amid cases of chip smuggling to China
  5. NYT: US subsidiary of sanctioned Chinese company Inspur shipped servers with $3 billion of Nvidia chips to Southeast Asia
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